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The Current (Large Print)
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
The Current (Large Print)
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Tim Johnston
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Dimensions(mm): Height 218,Width 142 |
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Category/Genre | Large Print Thorndike Press All Dates Fiction |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781432859206
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Edition |
Large Print Edition
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Thorndike Press
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Imprint |
Thorndike Press
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NZ Release Date |
6 February 2019 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
The Current is a rare creature: a gripping thriller and page-turner but also a masterwork of mood and language--a meditation on memory and time. Youll want to go fast at the same time youll be compelled to savor each and every word.--Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called astonishing, dazzling, and unforgettable by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene--half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the communitys memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to find answers, the surviving young woman soon realizes that shes connected to the earlier unsolved case by more than just a river, and the deeper she plunges into her own investigation, the closer she comes to dangerous truths, and to the violence that simmers just below the surface of her hometown. Grief, suspicion, the innocent and the guilty--all stir to life in this cold northern town where a young woman can come home, but still not be safe. Brilliantly plotted and unrelentingly propulsive, The Current is a beautifully realized story about the fragility of life, the power of the past, and the need, always, to fight back.
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